And while we're sitting locked up in our homes, it's time for a more or less elaborate look at the data. Here's a quick summary of the first month of monitor...

As we expected from the beginning of the current world-wide crisis the Santa Lucía community is heavily affected by travel restrictions, lock-downs and whate...

This year we expect a student of Sussex University to support the bird monitoring at the Santa Lucía reserve. Although we had to postpone his visit which was...

Thanks to the Corona-Virus-Quarantine we were finally able to get rid of the huge backlog in reviewing the camera trapping data. Especially at one location t...

We did the monitoring of flowering orchids in our orchid garden early this months. The good news is: there are still more than 20 species in flower! And we h...

Walking in the big footsteps of Natacha, Julia and Nicolas (last year's volunteers) we have two students of the Hoogeschool Gent, Belgium working on hummingb...

Here's the Top 15 most registered animals in our camera traps (excluding human beings and domestic animals). There are surprisingly many birds on the list. (...

So here's a little graph that shows that differences in rainfall down here in La Delicia (Nanegal) and around the Lodge. The places are only 6-7 Kilometers a...

Last week a friend of us, Javier Robayo, visited us and he brought another friend, Marco Monteros. Both work for the Eco-Mingo foundation who maintains sever...

As expected the count of orchid flowers in January took much long then in the last months. And just out of curiosity we did it twice within 14 days to see how...

Santa Lucía's 2019 Bird Monitoring program was finished in mid-December. Meanwhile the data has been entered and we are working on the analysis. Between Noé ...

We have successfully completed another year of rainfall measurement in the Santa Lucía reserve. The amount of rain at the lodge in 2019 was 26% higher than i...

Orchid season is starting in the Santa Lucía reserve. All over our forest lots and lots of orchid flowers can be admired now. Many of them are difficult to s...

"Hello! Anybody in there?" This is actually footage from a camera that's supposed to film flowers in order to record hummingbird polination. But one of our b...

Flowerpiercers have hooked bills which enables them to drill holes in the base of flowers and "steal" the nectar. The picture shows a female White-sided Flow...

One of our most commonly oberved reptiles: The (Stenocercus varius). Endemic to our region and diurnal we often observe it around the lodge and on the trail...

One of the stranger creatures of the Santa Lucía Reserve: Metcalfiella monogramma is a species belonging to the so-called treehoppers (Membracidae). While tr...

We are currently experimenting with methodologies to monitor flowering in our orchid garden. The plan is to come up with something that is useful scientifica...